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At CDMX headquarters and in the countrys interior
The International Forum of the Cineteca Nacional is back
July 06, 2018With radical and unusual proposals from around the world, the 38th International Film Forum will be held from June 13-30 at the Cineteca Nacional, a program that will be extended to several venues in Mexico City and some states of the Mexican Republic.
The select exhibition is based on unconventional formulas to which the feature films are integrated and with few possibilities of showing in conventional circuits can be seen by lovers of the seventh art in 15 venues in the country's capital, said Nelson Carro, director of Programming and Dissemination of the Cineteca Nacional.
The circuit includes the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Cinépolis and Cinemex, La Casa del Cine, Le Cinéma, Cine Tonalá and Cinemanía Loreto, from July 20 to August 28.
In the interior of the Republic, it can be seen in 18 venues, starting on August 3, including the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, the BUAP (Puebla), the Cultural Center Tamaulipas, the Autonomous University Chapingo, the Cineteca Zacatecas, the Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura IVEC, the Instituto Cultural de León, the CineForo Guadalajara, the Secretariat of Culture of Chihuahua, Cineteca Nuevo León and the Cineteca Tijuana.
Carro said the forum includes in this edition the movies by Mexican filmmakers Michel Lipkes and Gabriel Mariño, Extraño pero verdadero (Strange but true) (Mexico, 2018) and Ayer maravilla fui (Yesterday wonder I was) (Mexico, 2017), respectively.
The first one will open the selection of 14 movies with a sordid street tale about garbage collectors and Yesterday wonder I was is an interesting story about love and transmutation of bodies.
Narro Carro announced that the 38th Forum also includes two animated films: Have a Good Day (Hao Jile, China, 2017), by Liu Jian, which with the technique of rotoscoping takes us in an acid way through the underworld of the Far East, and Tropical Virus (Colombia-Ecuador, 2018), by Santiago Caicedo, who shows Latin America in the 70s and 80s from the eyes of a young Ecuadorian girl.
There will be recent works by prestigious directors such as the Lithuanian Sharunas Bartas with the movie La helada (Šerkšnas, Lithuania-France-Ukraine-Poland, 2017); João Canijo with Fatima (Portugal-France, 2017); Cãlin Peter Netzer with Ana, mi amor (Ana, mon amour), Romania-Germany-France, 2017), and the German Angela Schanelec with The path of dreams (Der traumhafte Weg, Germany, 2017).
Among the movies selected are the winner of the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Ravens (Korparna, Sweden, 2017), by Jens Assur; Caniba (France, 2017), by the directors Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor; the epic story of a worker in Arabia (Arábia, Brazil, 2017) by João Dumans and Affonso Uchôa, and the mystery Galician movie Thirty souls (Trinta Lumes, Spain, 2017) by Diana Toucedo.
Also noteworthy are the feature films Ojos de madera (Uruguay-Argentina-Venezuela, 2017) by the Uruguayans Roberto Suárez and Germán Tejeira, produced over the course of almost a decade, and one of the considered classics of horror cinema with surrealist strokes, Cabeza de borrador (Ereaserhead, United States, 1977), a debut feature by cult filmmaker David Lynch, which has been restored in 4k.
Alejandro Pelayo, general director of the Cineteca Nacional, stressed that "the idea of the forum is to present a group of movies that go towards a different narrative, stylistic and thematic proposal, in contrast with the International Film Festival that offers a selection of the most outstanding film festivals".
By the end of the six-year term and of his administration, he assured that he would conclude his work with important projects.
"There will be a retrospective of the work of the Argentine director Fernando Pino Solanas, highlighting the projection of the restored movie, La hora de los hornos".
“There will also be an exhibition on Alfred Hitchcock in September, with a retrospective of approximately 35 movies", which will be part of this year's exhibition, in addition to Ingmar Bergman's centenary and his retrospective, along with the upcoming International Film Festival.
The director Michel Lipkes, author of the movie Strange but True, indicated that his work "is a fairy tale with a good dose of romanticism, fatalism and perhaps darkness that develops in Mexico City, a fragile, vulnerable and dark city as he wants to portray this fairy tale".
For his part, Gabriel Mariño stressed that Yesterday, wonder I was is a fantastic movie shot in the capital of the country in 2017. The story tells the life of an entity that has an unreal condition and must usurp bodies uncontrollably.
"It is a love story and a questioning about whether we human beings are capable of falling in love with the essence of another human being or whether the physical determines that love”.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
